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| What is the definition of Sociology? |
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| The scientific study of human social behavior |
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| What does "social" refer to? |
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| Social refers to behavior in interaction with or with respect to other people. |
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| What is the textbook definition of Sociology? |
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| The study of societies and the social worlds that individuals inhabit with in them. |
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| What are the levels of social behavior? |
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| Micro-sociology, Mesosociology, and Macro-sociology |
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| What is the definition of micro-sociology? |
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| Concerned with individuals and with face to face interactions. |
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| concerned with collections of potentially face to face groups (mostly organizations) |
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| concerned with large scale social phenomena like social movements, war, population growth. |
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| What is the Key Sociological insight of Micro-sociology? |
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| The self and self-concept emerge through interaction with other people. |
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| The tendency for people to make more risky/dangerous decisions because of being in a group |
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| What is an example of risky shift? |
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| making a decision to drink because all of your other friends are drinking. |
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| what is mesosociology mostly concerned with? |
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| what is the mesosociology principal? |
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| Organizations try to control uncertainty |
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| what is the general sociological principal? |
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| Much of what goes on in social life has its end reducing uncertainty. |
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| One way is through technological change. |
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| Examples of Macrosociology |
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| Racial and Ethnic relations |
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| Examples of macrosociology |
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Interactions between parts of the society.
Example: After-School Daycare |
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| The world becoming more Interconnected |
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| What is the Globalization Early Theory? |
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One of the early analyses of globalization was "The communist Manifesto"
*1848
*By Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels |
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| What is the "sociological imagination"? (Mills) |
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| Ability to see the connection between the life of the individual (Microsociology)and the larger social context (Macrosociology) |
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| What is the definition of "self" ? |
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| Individual reflection on ones own identity and social position. |
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| What is the definition of interactionism |
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| was a term coined by sociologist Charles Horton in 1902 |
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| The study of peoples methods |
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| Is another method people use in social interaction |
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| we can also see peoples methods in action in conversation |
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| Ignoring each other to an appropriate degree although noticing that others is present |
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| To denote individuals close to us to have a strong capacity to motivate our behavior |
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| groups that influence our behavior |
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| To refer to the substance-- the systems of beliefs and knowledge |
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| sets of individuals who share common preferences. |
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| a distinct social category that is set off from others and has associated with it a set of expected behaviors and roles for individuals assume. |
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| fulfilling the expectations of our roles conflicts with meeting the expectations of another. |
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| Social construction of reality |
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| The interactive process by which knowledge is produced and codified, making it specific to a certain group or society |
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| (Robert Morton) somethi9ng becomes true because people say it is true. |
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| social construction of gender |
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| the entire system of social processes that create and sustain gender differences and gender inequality |
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| to the extent that men have more power than women in politics, the economy, and the family |
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| individuals who were assigned one sex category at birth, but feel strongly that they belong in the other sex category |
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| what is the term "transgender" sometimes referred to? |
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| a boarder group of people who change or challenge sex or gender categories |
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| encouraged these laws and their enforcement and gave some women a sense of entitlement to have a career as well as a family |
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| how do sociologist measure occupational sex segregation? |
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| with an index that ranges from 1 for complete segregation to 0 for complete integration. |
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| why do women still earn less then men? |
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employers pay people more when they have more years of experience.
1) women are more likely then men to have dropped out for a time to take care of children.
2)Women are concentrated in lower paying occupations. |
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| refers to whether individuals are attracted to members of the other sex, the same sex, or both. |
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| double standard of sexuality |
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| the tendency to judge women more harshly than men for having sex casually. |
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| refers to anyone who is not heterosexual, or who is transgendered |
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| a situation where the culture and institutions send the message that everyone is heterosexual or at least this is the normal way to be |
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| 1996 congress adopted the Defense Of Marriage Act. ---Marriage can only be with One man and One woman. |
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| the term that sociologist and demographers use to describe the act of living together as an Unmarried couple. |
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